2018 venture vermont: learn to identify two noxious plants

first, you have to find out what plants are designated noxious. the state is very helpful that way.

noxious plants are not that hard to find.

my two i learned this year are yellow iris...

and norway maple.

yellow iris is pretty easy to identify, but norway maple looks a lot like a maple tree. we're about maple trees in vermont, particularly sugar maples, which apparently  norway maples can displace.

i identified this one as a norway maple with the help of my brand new forest trees of maine but as far as i understand, the big tells are a leaf wider than it is long and a leaf stem that exudes milky sap when broken.